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More Vendeean Eye Candy
Been playing around with Osprey’s En Garde! while waiting for the Big Battalions package to arrive, and it’s been nice to fiddle with a new ruleset and some blackpowder scenarios. My fantasy town works well as a backdrop if I leave off the wizard tower and skull mountain pieces....
Wargaming Social Media
Forums represent the best that social media has to offer the miniature wargamer. I’ve been slowly accreting some solid wargaming bros on the Twitter, but the ephemeral nature of microblogging means that the pictures and tales and rule discussions held there vanish in to the void. What the site...
The Wargaming Don
The Oldhammer guys are pikers. Since staring the Joy of Wargaming channel, I’ve been doing a lot more gaming than ever. It has all been solo wargaming, but not because of the 800-pound virus-gorilla in the room. It’s because I prefer my own company to that of the typical...
Moving Day, Helping a Friend
There’s a new blog on the block that should be of interest to anyone who has been following my own conversion over to the (latest) One True Scale: 15mm Skirmish. You probably already know Sam Pate from his blog, Wee Blokes. He has decided to open a blog specifically...
Excellent Dungeon Maps
There are a few tidy little dungeon mapping software tools out there online, but none of them were quite what I needed for my simple little Castle Meatgrinder Maps. With a limited tile set available, I needed something digital that would allow me to drop them in place and...
Never Paint Alone – A Podcast Recommendation
In The Garage The best time for painting – at least for middle-aged family men for whom this hobby is at the bottom of a long, long list of things to do – is that magic hour between seeing the kids off to bed and when days tribulations finally...
Amazon is the Grown Up Version of the Tooth Fairy
Tonight my head will be dancing with visions of sugar plum rule mechanics:...
Small Box Blues, Part Four
There’s no way around it – big multi-layer pieces of terrain just aren’t going to fit into a small box. So let’s just stick with a one level floor plan. Everybody and his uncle uses some variation of rectangular or hex-based tiles for their terrain. But since this is...
Small Box Blues, Part Two
There are basically two ways to build wargame interiors. You can place freestanding walls on a ground surface (aka “the maze”), or you can integrate them into the ground surface (aka “tiling”). There is a third way, a hybrid method with tiles that represent rooms and corridors. Let’s look...